Contrastive - Definition

adj 1: of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn:
contrastive, incompatible]
2: strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or
contrastive) colors" [syn: contrasting, contrastive]
3: syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between
sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive
conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a
contrastive function"